The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-08

ne SAID TO me- Il understand Jnat you
contemplate DESERVING your post, which
is by your husbands side, and that
you are not going to California with
him. II you will pardon me, should
like to give you little advice. You
must not think OF doing this. AS one
considerably older than Hancock, and
having had greater experience, | con
slider it fatal to the future Happiness
OF young married people, upon small
provocation, to live apart, either foi
| q short or long time. The result is
invariably that they cease to be es
sential to each other. Now promise
me that you will not permit him to
| sail without you. The sequel shows
how faithfully sought to follow that
noble mans admonition. and how oft
| en- in my varied experience / had oc'
| casion to transmit to Others his dis.
interested, truthful convictions,
With many regrets we babe adieu to
a host OF friends, most OF whom ]
never saw again. Not 30 with my
husband, however. He met them
face to face on the battlefield in less
than three years"
After crossing the Isthmus OF Pan.
| anna Captain Handbook and his
wife embarked on the Golden Gate
| for San Francisco. There were 1,750
passengers in all, and those in the
steerage were assumptions and ag
gressive and Handbook took promi
nent part in suppressing an incipient
mutiny.
The Hancocks were in Los Angeles
when the election OF 1860 approached.
| Their situation was equally danger.
Gus and unpleasant. Fearing per-
sonal assault upou himself, a very
possible event, as he was the only
UnitedStates official within hundred
miles OF Los Angeles, he collected O
small arsenal OF twenty Derringers
within mis- own house, in readiness fol
use at moments notice.
On the Fourth OF July, 1860, Mr..
Hancock made his maided speech, a
strong and impressive, il not eloquent
appeal to his countrymen not to
separate themselves from the COM
mon memories and interests which
had SO long bound them together.
Whether this Fourth OF July celebra.
ton had any effect upon the disturb
ances can not say, but it was gener'
ally considered to have quieted for
time the rising spirit OF dissatisfac'
ton, which was assuming an impor
lance manlfestly not illusory."
Referring to the painful scenes
among old army comrades after Sum
ter was fired upon, Mrs. Hancock
says: "Many conferences were held
in our home in Los Angeles
between my husband and the south.
ern officers, who were urged by
their relatives and friends to resign
their commissions and offer their ser
| vices to their own states, as other
wise they would be regarded as reneg
AIDES throughout the south. They
sought the advice OF my husband,
hoping to receive from him some com.
fort or encouragement, but he could
give none, and would say to those
dear friends, Armistead, Garnett,
Pickett, and host of others whom
he loved Il can give you no advice,
as / shall not fight upon the principle
OF state-rights, but for the Union
whole and undivided, as ! do not and
will not belong to country formed
OF municipalities. can not sym
pathize with you; you must be guid.
ed by your own convictions and
! hope you will make no mistakes.
4 At that time was in San
Francisco and had occasion to visit
| the headquarters OF General Albert
Sidney Johnston, who was IN COM
mand on the Pacific coast. He met
me that morning and said, with tears
| in his eyes, "You are not aware that
| General Sumner was among the pas
sengers who arrived on the steamer
| this morning, and who came to me
unannounced, expecting to catch me
+, In reasonable intentions. have not
yet seen him, but | understand that
| he has been sent out to relieve me oil
my command l replied; General,
you are morbidly sensitive, think.
and hasty in your conclusions Il
hope that have been, but why was
the Generals name omitted in the
passenger list that was sent by the
overland mail? II my suspicious are
correct shall at once resign, and God
knows what then, had intended to
remain where / am, as my wife is 80
opposed to my giving up certainty
for an uncertainty 1t was soon
known that General Johnston had re-
signed"
A dramatic SOMEONE OF a thou
sand similar ones in those sud dnys--
is set before the reader in the next
passage,
A never-to.be-forgotten evening was
the one spent at our home by the OF
| ficers who were to start upon their
overland trip to the South at IL
o'clock that night. General and Mrs.
Johnston were oil the party.